Gloster Gladiator in 33 RAF Squadron service

33 Squadron
Reconstituted as a fighter squadron at Ismailia on 1 March 1938.
Ismailia, February 1938 to September 1938. Heliopolis, September 1938 to October 1938. Ramleh, Mersah Matruh and Helwan, September 1938 to October 1940.
Over the period February to June 1940, some Gauntlets reinforced the Gladiators.
Code letters: These were initially "SO". In 1939 they were changed to "TN" and finally, with the outbreak of war, to "NW".